In this February 10, 2009, file photo, a Hawaiian monk seal basks in the late afternoon sun on the beach in Hau'ula, Hawaii, on the north shore of Oahu. An environmental group on Thursday, February 5, 2015, recommended more federal spending to help prevent critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals from becoming extinct. The world's population of Hawaiian monk seals is less than 1,100. (Photo by Jim Collins/AP Photo)
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